Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second:...
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but wit...
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, ...
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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavali...
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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword...
